File:New Orleans 240 Bourbon FB Johnson C 1937.jpg
"240 Bourbon St., Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana" (sic, should be "240 Bourbon St., New Orleans")
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Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston via Library of Congress website [1]; highest res TIF converted to jpg, border cropped and contrast slightly adjusted before uploading to Wikimedia Commons.
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Shows "Old Absinthe House" at uptown river corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1937.
Notes: Old street signs for Bienville and Bourbon Street (dating from c. 1890s) attached to corner of building. Newer "humpback" style sign attached to lamp post, stating Bourbon Street with intersecting street Bienville in smaller lettering up top.
Frances Benjamin Johnston
(1864–1952) |
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Frances "Fannie" Benjamin Johnston | ||
Description | American journalist, photographer, photojournalist, architectural photographer and artist | ||
Date of birth/death | 15 January 1864 | 16 May 1952 | |
Location of birth/death | West Virginia | New Orleans | |
Work period | 1883 –1950 | ||
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United States of America (1884–1952) | ||
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